Will you install Windows 10?

[jpenguin]

I have Windows 10 dual-booted with Kubuntu 16.04 on my desktop and just Linux Mint on my old netbook. I rarely use Windows because Linux does practically everything I need it to do.

My primary desktop dualboots Apricity(cinnamon)/win10. My other desktop is Ubuntu 14.04 Mate/PC-BSD. I use Apricity for almost everything, haven't booted win10 for months

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[wizard10000]

I run Win10 under virtualbox as my employer's HR site requires IE and user agent spoofing doesn't work (thanks, SAP). But considering I only fire the thing up once a month or so to grab updates I'm about to the point where I archive the license key and reclaim 75GB of SSD space

[dequire]

I run Win10 under virtualbox as my employer's HR site requires IE[...]

Is this 2003? Wow, that's crazy. I'm guessing there's some kind of legacy home-grown .net stuff running somewhere from way back when .net was competing with java (anyone remember java beans?) for "on-the-fly" client-side calculations?

[wizard10000]

Is this 2003? Wow, that's crazy. I'm guessing there's some kind of legacy home-grown .net stuff running somewhere from way back when .net was competing with java (anyone remember java beans?) for "on-the-fly" client-side calculations?

Yeah, something like that. Getting tired of just firing up the VM to get security updates once a month so as mentioned, I'm about ready to archive the license key and blow the VM away, or at least put it on backup media

[Snowhog]

Before I left Windows completely (at home), I had it running in a VM for the sole purpose of running Quicken. When I found KMymoney, I installed it and started 'looking it over' and found it did everything I needed from Quicken. That was it. I no longer had a need to keep Windows, so it's VM went into the Trash and I've never had Windows on my PC's since. That was more than four (maybe five) years ago.

[MoonRise]

Wish I could say the same. Work is still a MS shop and that won't change anytime soon as the software we have is specialized and only written to run on Windows. Though I have tried getting them to run in Linux under WINE, no go, so dual boot I stay.

[GreyGeek]

Yeah, something like that. Getting tired of just firing up the VM to get security updates once a month so as mentioned, I'm about ready to archive the license key and blow the VM away, or at least put it on backup media

I had WinXP as a guest OS "just in case" for several years, but like you I realized that although I never used it I ran it once every three or four months for updates. The last time I ran updates there were several thousand waiting for me (27K or 32K IIRC) and it took over an hour. That's when I decided I was wasting my time since I had never used XP even once. I was using XP at work to write software using the Qt API in Visual Studio C++ 6.0. I experimented using Kate, Kdbg and gcc on my Linux partition and found I could code, compile and test 2 to 3 times faster in Linux than in VS in XP, so that's what I started doing. I tested againt PostgreSQL and used compiler defines to detect the OS and switch in Oracle code if the compile took place on my Windows partition.

[Qqmike]

We have 8.1 on the wife's ASUS laptop, I don't use it but am the "administrator/troubleshooter," and will upgrade to Win X soon -- mainly because I thought it would be a good exercise for me to 'learn' Windows up-to-date and be informed about it. It works for her email, Skype, photos and such. However, if this sh* gets to be too much with 10, ads and all, even after I configure the various 30-something privacy settings, I'll wipe that hdd in a NY minute and run 14.04 on it for her and never look back. That is to say, we each have our limit about what we can tolerate as acceptable--"learning experience" or not. And, there are details. Like my Skype on my 14.04 is actually nicer and more configurable than her Skype on 8.1.

[SecretCode]

[MoonRise]

[Qqmike]

"Microsoft accused of even more aggressive Windows 10 upgrade pressure ... "

Microsoft has expressed a desire to see Windows 10 power a billion devices by the end of last year, and there is no shortage of circles that accuse the company of employing underhand techniques to force the upgrade to the new OS.

The saga is back with a new episode this time, with claims that Redmond has made the switch to the new operating system impossible to block.

Microsoft Denies That It Has Made The Windows 10 Upgrade Impossible To Block

http://www.windows10update.com/2016/...ossible-block/

[acheron]

Currently have Win 8.1 on 2nd hard disk here. Put in a whole new disk for kubuntu so I didn't have to touch the Windows install it came with, apart from a little bit of partitioning to make a data partition.

At the moment have booted into Windows less that half a dozen times in a year and a bit, so honestly rather than go with the Win10 'upgrade' I'm very minded to just wipe Win8.1 partition and do away with it in full. Can run various Win versions in a VM if push really comes to shove.

[Qqmike]

Woman Sues Microsoft Against Forced Windows 10 Upgrades, Wins

http://www.windows10update.com/2016/...upgrades-wins/

[GreyGeek]

A rare outcome!

[logan01]

I have XP on my oldest / slowest laptop, Seven only on my most powerful 5 year old laptop, Ten / Kubuntu on this newest (1yr) laptop. The Ten came w/ 8.1 upgradeable. My understanding was the "free" upgrade" would end June 2016. Beginning 1 July, does it go from "free" (freedom of choice" to forced? I was on my Seven yesterday and thus far, it only has that little upgrade icon in the tray; nothing forced as of yet. It can be a little confusing (upgrade choice) in not given its due attention.